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W. B. HATFIEL'D.

CARVING FORK.

No. 318,782. Patented'May 26, 1885.

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WILLIAM BARKER HATEIELD, OE SHEFELELD, COUNTY vOE YORK, ENGLAND, Assia-NOE To JOSEPH EOEGERS a SONS, (LIMITEE) OE SAME rLAcE.

CARVING-FORK.

SPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,732, dated May 26, 1885.

Application filed February 24, 1885.

To aZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BAKKER HAT- EIELD, of Sheiield, in the county of York, England, have invented a certain new and use- 5 ful Improvement in Carving-Forks, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to carving-forks which are provided with guards that are rotated or swung around for the purpose of adro justing them into the different positions which they are designed to assume.

My improvement consists in a novel construction of the shank or body of the fork and the guard, whereby the desired movements of i5 the guard are provided for in a simpler and cheaper manner than heretofore.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is aside view of a i'ork embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the 2O same, taken on the plane of the dotted line xx,

Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same, taken at the plane of the dotted lineg/y,

Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a face view ofthe guard detached. Fig. 5 is a side view of this guard. 25 Fig. 6 is a side view of a fork having my improvement embodied in it in a slightly-modiiied form. Fig. 7 is a plan or top view ofthe guard of this fork, and Fig. 8 is a top view of a certain part of the fork.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

A designates the shank or body ot' the fork. It is provided, as usual, with a shoulder, B, adjacent to the tang.

C designates the tines or prongs of the fork.

D indicates the guard.

Having given this general description of the parts of the fork, I will proceed to describe the features which are peculiar to the parts 4o shown in Figs. l, 2, 3, 4, and 5. In the shank or body A ofthe fork is a hole, a. This hole extends obliquely through the Shank or body of the fork from the upper to the lower side, the upper end being nearer than the lower end 45 to the tines or prongs of the fork. The hole a is elliptical, the major axis of the ellipse extending from side to side of the shank or body of the fork. The guard D has a shank comeach other.

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to the main portion of the guard. These arms diverge, so that they have to be forced or sprung toward each other to enable them to enter the hole a. XVhen inserted, they expand or move apart through their resilience and press forcibly against the interior of the hole a. The extreme ends of the arms d are extended outward, so as to project against the lower side of the shank or body A of the fork below the hole a. Vhenever the guard is turned into a position which will bring its arms dinto line with the major axis of the elliptical hole a, the arms spring out and engage with the hole, so that the guard cannot be easily turned. rlhe outwardly-extending portions at the extreme ends ofthe arms d act as catches to prevent the guard from being pulled out of the hole. rIhe guard will then be prevented from being accidentally shifted. The guard may be turned into a position so that its outer end will occupy a position close to the base of thetines or prongs of the fork, and then its arms d will engage with the hole a, as just described. The guard may also be turned half-way round, to cause it to assume an elevated position. \Vhen turned into this position, the arms (l will engage with the hole a in the same way. It is illustrated in both these positions in Fig. l, it being represented in one position in full outline, and in the other position in dotted outline.

In Figs. G, 7, and S, I have shown a fork which has a stud, ai, extending from the upper side of its shank or body A. It has an oval or elliptical neck and an overhanging head. The guard D has arms d, which tend to spring together instead of apart, and have semi-elliptical notches in the inner edges where they lit the neck of the stud a2. They grip the neck of the studa.2 whenever the guard is turned, so that they can interlock with it, and thereby prevent the guard from accidentally swinging out of the desired position.

It will be obvious that in each example of my invention the shank or body of the fork is provided with a holder` i'or the guard, and the guard has arms, whieh,throngh their resilience, will interlock with the holder.

-What I claim as my invention, and desire to Secure by Letters Fatent, is-

l. rIhe combination, with a fork provided IOO ing obliquely through its shank or body, of a guard provided with resilient arms iitting 15A Within and interlocking with said hole, and catches below the hole to prevent the guard from being pulled out of the hole, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM BARKER HATFIELD.

Witnesses:

C. B. VEBs'rER,

U. S. Consul, F. F. HILIBERT,

I'S clerk. 

